Spanish Inquisition
The derogatory term for Jews who pretended to convert to Christianity
What are Marranos?
What is a ghetto?
Code of Jewish Law by Rabbi Yosef Karo
What is the Shulchan Aruch?
School (often a rebbe's dining room table) where Jewish boys in Ashkenazic countries were taught to read
What is a Cheder?
Queen of Russia who takes over Poland
Who was Queen Catherine (II) the Great?
The name of the Grand Inquisitor in Spain in 1481
Who was Thomas de Torquemada?
The pope who both sent Inquisitors to Spain and also accepted Jews into the Papal States
Who was Pope (Alexander VI) Borgia?
Letter of the Hebrew alphabet that was historically pronounced differently in the Ashkenazic, Sephardic and Yemenite traditions
What is ת?
The founder of the Chassidic movement
Who was (Rabbi Eliezer) Ba'al Shem Tov?
Graduation dinner for Hebrew Union College in 1883 in which clams, crabs, and frogs' legs were served
What was the Treyfa Banquet?
What open Jews in Spain had to wear on their clothing as a sign they were Jewish
What is a red circle?
This type of Chumash, created by Daniel Bomberg, was based on the polyglot
What is Mikraot Gedolot?
Name for Rabbi Moshe Isserles's additions to Rabbi Yosef Karo's book
What is the Mappah/Tablecloth? (We will accept What is the Darchei Moshe?)
Famous book by the first Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, which is still read by Chabad followers today
What is the Tanya?
Jews from US city were the first in America to be interested in adopting Reform ideas
What is Charleston (SC)?
Torah commentator who was the treasurer of the king of Spain
Who was Don Isaac Abarbanel?
Italian Torah commentator who worked unofficially as a doctor and opened a yeshiva in Bologna
Who was (Rabbi Ovadiah) Sforno?
River between France and Germany that Jews referred to as "Ashkenaz"
What is the Rhine River?
Lithuanian rabbi who banned Chassidim and the Tanya from his city
Who was the Vilna Gaon/Rabbi Eliezer ben Shlomo Zalman of Vilna?
Jewish kidnappers paid by the Kahal to fill the quota of children for the Russian army
What were the Chappers?
The name for the decree that expelled the Jews from Spain
the Alhambra Decree
Name for the printer that printed the first Gemara Brachot and also the modern "Hertz Chumash"
What is Soncino?
The name of the Sephardic and Mizrachi nusach (version of the Tefilah)
What is Edot HaMizrach?
Second head of the Chassidic movement, who could not walk and therefore brought his followers to him
Who was Rabbi Dov Ber/the Maggid of Mezeritch?
German rabbi who believed that Jews should not differentiate themselves from non-Jews with circumcision, kippah, tallit, kashrut, or shofar
Who was Rabbi Samuel Holdheim?